Take a moment to think of your health, see it as an ecosystem. A garden. All it takes is the tiniest of pests to damage the garden; slugs chewing on the leaves of a tomato plant will stunt its growth and then damage the fruit. An illness which gets through your immune system will run amok and just like the failing fruit, it will cause problems beyond the initial damage. This is especially true of people with pre-existing medical conditions. If you’ve spent time and effort balancing your health with a condition like arthritis or diabetes it won’t take that much of a push from an outside influence to damage that delicate balance and cause you harm.
In order to preserve your delicate health, the garden if you will, you’ll need to take pre-emptive steps. Just like you’d put down salt or slug pellets for those pesky leaf-eating slugs, you’ll need to put down some poison for the potential bugs you might suffer. For arthritic patients who’re taking immunosuppressant drugs it’ll be important to get yourself vaccinated against the flu at the start of the winter months. Everyone with a compromised immune system should get the injection but it’s those patients who’ll be most at risk.
Talk to your Doctor about what’s best for you. Taking action early will help to prevent most kinds of illness as it’ll better prepare your body to deal with the encroaching condition. Of course this won’t always be enough and if you’re taking certain medications you may be advised to take other action. Again, talking to your doctor about what options are open to you may be a good idea. Understanding those options and then making an informed decision based around them is the key to getting and then maintaining a good standard of health and wellness.
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